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| author | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2005-07-02 18:52:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-07-11 14:47:41 -0700 |
| commit | ede7fbdf526c314850c9f32dd8da1753bf8d0ad5 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f1fefa6f6df58f5c27bf98bd7df0908e97e44ef /Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts | |
| parent | 8d5d45fb14680326f833295f2316a4ec5e357220 (diff) | |
[PATCH] I2C: Move hwmon drivers (3/3)
Part 3: Move the drivers documentation, plus two general documentation
files.
Note that the patch "adds trailing whitespace", because it does move the
files as-is, and some files happen to have trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts b/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1841cedc25b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83l785ts @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +Kernel driver w83l785ts +======================= + +Supported chips: + * Winbond W83L785TS-S + Prefix: 'w83l785ts' + Addresses scanned: I2C 0x2e + Datasheet: Publicly available at the Winbond USA website + http://www.winbond-usa.com/products/winbond_products/pdfs/PCIC/W83L785TS-S.pdf + +Authors: + Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> + +Description +----------- + +The W83L785TS-S is a digital temperature sensor. It senses the +temperature of a single external diode. The high limit is +theoretically defined as 85 or 100 degrees C through a combination +of external resistors, so the user cannot change it. Values seen so +far suggest that the two possible limits are actually 95 and 110 +degrees C. The datasheet is rather poor and obviously inaccurate +on several points including this one. + +All temperature values are given in degrees Celsius. Resolution +is 1.0 degree. See the datasheet for details. + +The w83l785ts driver will not update its values more frequently than +every other second; reading them more often will do no harm, but will +return 'old' values. + +Known Issues +------------ + +On some systems (Asus), the BIOS is known to interfere with the driver +and cause read errors. The driver will retry a given number of times +(5 by default) and then give up, returning the old value (or 0 if +there is no old value). It seems to work well enough so that you should +not notice anything. Thanks to James Bolt for helping test this feature. |